[LINK] home emergencies

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

> > .. genuine (link-tech & sorry if boring) efforts to save lives :-)
> 
> No proof. Hmm. While others' attempts to extrapolate a technology that
> was used by a few enthusiasts a couple of decades ago into a functional
> early warning system usable by hundreds of thousands of people who will
> use it for the first time when the disaster is at their doorstep - this
> is backed by extensive scientific research?

just linker geek types wondering what-if .. perhaps a way link can help

> It doesn't scale, and cannot meet its stated objectives .. a wishful
> thinking technical response to a fundamentally non-technical problem.
> 
> > For many years Taxi systems used radio in mission-sort-of-critical
> > jobs with little black boxes that identified individual senders,
> > and allowed selective & private two-way communications. An existing
> > reliable system that works, cheap & basically low-tech.
>
> 
> Yup. Works well with a tiny user base. Doesn't scale ..


Thanks for this technical advice. Others(?) may differ. I guess we might
be taking a different philosophical approach. You rightly give excellent
personal defend-yourself advice. An everyman-to-himself philosophy. Good
advice for you & me, we can swing any metal bucket, not so good for dear
Mrs Jones, or Fred with his gammy leg or the nice young misses & yung'un
just new in town and hasn't mowed.

Being told directly by Jim, over State/National emergency comms systems
(logically digital-CB-radio?) and our local two-unit CFA Captain that a
third outbreak was just over the hill and heading towards town at three
in the morning would be MUCH better than ALL not being told this by Jim.

Sure it's everyone for themselves, but with communication, it also isnt

> What I said was that people should listen to the warnings they *do* get,
> and should either get the hell out WAY ahead of the fire or stay in
> their (preferably well-prepared) homes while the fire passes, *then* get
> out. Lo tech, but known to work. "Any" technology?  Oh no, I'll put my
> faith in firepumps, metal buckets and good leather boots right enough.

Good for you .... 

Maybe insurance companies may be happy to supply 'free' home-comms units?

Cheers people
Stephen Loosley
Victoria Australia